posted May 15, 2008 11:08 AM            

1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

2. You own a $3,000 machine gun and $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.

3. You have more wives than teeth.

4. You wipe your tail with your bare left hand, but consider bacon "unclean."

5. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.

6. You can't think of anyone you haven't declared Jihad against.

7. You consider television dangerous, but you routinely carry explosives in your clothing.

8. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.

9. You've ever uttered the phrase, "I love what you've done with your cave."

10. You have nothing against women and think every man should own at least one.

11. You bathe at least monthly whether you think it's necessary or not.

12. You've got a crush on your neighbor's goat.

posted May 15, 2008 11:22 AM            

OMG that makes me a former Taliban.
I still don't like bacon but don't consider it unclean.

posted May 16, 2008 08:01 PM            

They're far from staid after a raid
Those Taliban spouting Koranic quotes
They hide their women away
for they much prefer their goats

The Taliban don't eat their treats
Not one of them's a glutton.
So isn't it a marvel
That they always smell of mutton?

Ok, I got that from this song:

They're far from staid after a raid
Those men of Zhentil Keep:
They kill off all the women
For they much prefer the sheep.

The Zhents don't eat their ill-got treat;
Not one of them's a glutton.
So isn't it a marvel
That they always smell of mutton?

--The Ballad of the Zhentish Raiders, by Danilo Thann of Waterdeep (as shared by Elaine Cunningham in her book Elfshadow).

posted May 16, 2008 09:26 PM            

I find mocking people's poverty and desperation to be quite, quite unfunny.

How about, you might be a right wing imperialist war profiteer that gets rich off the lives of young men and women if....

1.You accidentally shoot your friends while hunting

2.You have a poor command of the Enlish language

3.You resemble a monkey, or Darth Vader

4.You use religion as a facade for descruction

posted May 16, 2008 11:48 PM            

Before a terrorist becomes a terrorist, they were someone's child. They had an infancy, they grew up, they were indoctrinated with values of ignorance and hatred. They were once innocent and had the potential for love and happiness.

The choices outlined above indicate people who live in poverty. People who do not have access to toilets or sanitary conditions.

I give them, and the targets of their attacks, my compassion. I know what it feels like to be consumed by hatred. It is not a pleasant feeling. I wish for them to live better lives where they don't have to be full of hatred and false ideology that causes them to be misguided enough to actually kill a human being.

posted May 17, 2008 01:24 AM            

What I disagree is the means by which it is eliminated.

I don't think you can eliminate an ideological problem by eliminating people. It has never worked, historically. It didn't work in Vietnam. It didn't work in Korean. It's not working now.

posted May 17, 2008 02:40 AM            

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1. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.

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